The Titan's Curse
(Book three)
My Review: This book was hard for me to start. I've always hated when the main character in a book was shunned, did something wrong or was over-ruled by another character. Basically if they weren't perfect and given credit for what they'd done. Let me say this: I don't like Thalia. There. You get it. Let's continue.
So, besides the fact that I did not like two of the three main characters in this book, I love it. I like how its actually hard for me to start reading the first couple chapters. Another reason is, I like secrets that are in plain sight, but difficult to notice right away and Rick Riordan has a fantastic and magical way of putting those out there. Another thing is, you start knowing Percy better in this book. In the end, you learn his fatal flaw. Given to him by none other then Annabeth's mother, Athena, goddess of wisdom, city, science and war herself.
Overall, this book is a great sequel like all the others in this series.
It shows us meaning and how even in a humorous book, you can portray the reality and coldness of death, evil and grief.
And yet, it still, in its own way, is possibly one of the most enchanting books that I have ever read.
"Are...are we up very high?"
'I looked down. Below us, a range of snowy mountains zipped by.
I stretched out my foot and kicked snow off of one of the peaks.
"Nah, I said. "Not that high."
-Percy Jackson (The Titan's Curse, pg. 220)
"Will ya look at my toes!" said other said. "Holy Zues, what were those tourists thinking?!"
-Hank (The Titan's Curse, pg. 219)
The Titan's Curse is a 2007 fantasy-adventure novel based on Greek mythology written by Rick Riordan.
It is the third novel in the Percy Jackson & the Olympians series and the sequel to The Sea of Monsters. It charts the adventures of the fourteen-year-old demigod Percy Jackson as he and his friends go on a dangerous quest to rescue his friend Annabeth Chase and the Greek goddess Artemis, who have both been kidnapped.
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| The Battle of the Labrynth
(Book four)
My Review: This book is my favorite in all the series. The Battle of the Labrynth is not the most humorous of all the books, but certainly one of the deepest. It shows a tragedy in love, in heart and soul, and it also shows forgiveness, understanding, and the possibility that even when you're almost positive about something, you can be wrong. It's power is strong, and it shows that even with the veil of humor that Rick Riordan creates, it still, deep down in the heart of the whole story, shows grief, sadness, impossibilities, broken hearts, bodies, and worst of all, broken minds. It's an incredible piece of work, and although its not as dark-humored or poetic-like as J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit, or as solemnly silly as J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series, it still has its own charm, it still shows exactly what can happen when things go wrong.
"Now that it is re-forged completely, it shall indeed bite back."
-Kronos (The Battle of the Labrynth, pg. 304)
The Battle of the Labyrinth is a 2008 fantasy-adventure novel based on Greek mythology; it is the fourth novel in the Percy Jackson & the Olympians series by Rick Riordan.
Fictional demigod Percy Jackson, who is fifteen years old by the end of the book, tries to stop Luke Castellan and his army from invading Camp Half-Blood through Daedalus's labyrinth by trying to find Daedalus and convince him not to give Luke Ariadne's string, which would help Luke through the Labyrinth. It was released on 6 May 2008 in the US and Canada. It was received positively overall. |
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